Freeware/Abandonware games?

sterlingsinner · Oct 3, 2005

Whatever happened to all those old games like Monkey island, Day of the Tentacle, Gabriel Knight, and any others you can think of?

Are there websites to download them free from (Not pirating, but legally if they're released as freeware)? Any websites that have good freeware games?

Thanks

Malevolent · Oct 3, 2005

Try this: *EDITED*
One of the best and largest (if not the best & largest ) sites out there.

It's been my source of abandonware for years.

DavidGP · Oct 3, 2005

Above link has been edited out for the reason laid out below ( taken from the FAQ of the site in question )

But isn't abandonware illegal?

Unfortunately, yes. Despite the fact that publishers no longer derive revenues from these games since they have stopped selling them (and any revenues from retailers that still sell them were gained a long time ago, at the time of sales), it is illegal to distribute them so long as copyright holders have not released them into the public domain, and 95 years after the games' release have not elapsed.
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Post links by all means if the download site is legitimatly offering legal downloads of free games

Malevolent · Oct 5, 2005

Whoops!

Somehow i failed to think those oldies as being "warez"...

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